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Aug 6, 2016 20:47:07 GMT
Post by shred on Aug 6, 2016 20:47:07 GMT
D.F.C. - Acting Flight Officer Thomas Dutton, Royal Air Force. Salford D.F.C. - Warrant Officer Frank Coulton, Royal Air Force. Atherton.
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Aug 6, 2016 21:12:27 GMT
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M.M. - Private (John) Wilfred Hibbert, The King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. Doddington Street, Salford.
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Aug 13, 2016 11:56:37 GMT
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D.F.C. - Flying Officer Isaac Ivor Segal, Royal Air Force. Salford.
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Aug 13, 2016 12:23:59 GMT
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KENNETH WOLSTENHOLME D.F.C. July 1944 Bar to the D.F.C.- Kenneth Wolstenholme (121908), Royal Air Force. Chatsworth Road, Eccles. Wolstenholme started his career as a journalist with a newspaper in Manchester, as a member of the RAFVR he was soon called up. In 1941, Wolstenholme qualified as a bomber pilot and was posted to 107 Squadron, flying Mark IV Bristol Blenheims out of RAF Great Massingham, Norfolk. At the start of 1943 he transferred to de Havilland Mosquito with 105 Squadron, part of Air Vice-Marshal Don Bennett's No. 8 Group RAF Pathfinder Group. Wolstenholme completed more than 100 highly hazardous sorties over Occupied Europe and in May 1944 was awarded the DFC. The following year he won a Bar to his DFC for his continual bravery in raids on Germany in a period of exceptionally heavy night fighter activity. He finished the war as an acting Squadron Leader, having spent its last stages working in the RAF's public relations department. Kenneth is renowned for his commentary during the 1966 World Cup Final. "some people are on the pitch... they think it's all over... it is now!"
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Aug 13, 2016 19:09:29 GMT
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M.M. Fusilier Samuel Gill, Lancashire Fusiliers. Salford.
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Aug 14, 2016 18:10:54 GMT
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D.C.M & M.M. - Frederick Dulhanty, 1/7th Lancashire Fusiliers. Salford.
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Aug 20, 2016 12:41:49 GMT
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D.F.C. & Bar - Acting Squadron Leader Alan Coleman. Salford.
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Aug 20, 2016 12:45:07 GMT
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Aug 24, 2016 18:21:10 GMT
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D.S.O., D.F.C. & Bar - Squadron Leader Nathan Bowman, Royal Air Force. Broom Lane, Broughton.
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Aug 25, 2016 18:03:03 GMT
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British Empire Medal - Private Ernest Hilton, Pioneer Corps. Eccles.
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Aug 27, 2016 18:38:01 GMT
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D.F.C. - Warrant Officer Edward Withers, Royal Air Force. Salford.
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Aug 27, 2016 18:47:53 GMT
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D.F.C. - Flight Lieutenant John Welch, Royal Air Force. Regent Road, Salford.
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Aug 29, 2016 12:02:42 GMT
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M.M. - Lance Sergeant Fredeick William Platt, Royal Artillery. Salford.
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Aug 29, 2016 12:24:42 GMT
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M.C. - Lieutenant Louis Joseph Reuben, Royal Welch Fusiliers. Broughton Lane, Broughton.
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Aug 29, 2016 16:33:19 GMT
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M.M. - Company Sergeant Major Samuel Lowe, Grenadier Guards. Oxfrod Road, Salford.
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